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What will Apple's move to Intel mean for Alternative Language Communities?In light of yesterday's big news from Apple, I am left wondering what will become of the many fine language implementations that we have seen emerging under OS X? Will the transition present problems for PLT Scheme, Haskell, Frontier, J, Croquet, FScript, etc....? Will the various vm engines and self-hosted native code generation capabilities survive with a few minor tweaks and a simple recompile or are they predicated on the PowerPC architecture itself forcing language designers back to the blackboard? Finally, from a purely technical perspective vis-a-vis the chip sets in question, was this move a stroke of genious, a case of 'worse is better', a bad idea, or an overall wash? By Peter J. Wasilko at 2005-06-07 13:48 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 11496 reads
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